Testing the Waters

Elisabeth Boles (left), an undergraduate at MIT, and Kama Thieler, Undergraduate Programs Coordinator at WHOI, measure nitrate levels in a seawater sample. The hands-on lesson was part of an Elements of Modern Oceanography class aboard the coastal research vessel Tioga. The course is a centerpiece of the Semester at WHOI (SAW) program, which gives undergraduates an opportunity to take graduate-level ocean science courses and immerse themselves in a semester-long independent research project, working with scientists and in labs at WHOI. Applications are open for the fall 2018 Semester at WHOI. (Photo by Matthew Barton, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)